For all the ways Italian neorealism brought a new socially conscious, unforgiving directness to cinema in the 1940s, Gianni Bozzacchi’s documentary “We Weren’t Just Bicycle Thieves. Neorealism” is as ...
"What is neorealism?" asks the filmmaker kogonada in this excellent video essay, created for the May 2013 issue of Sight & Sound magazine. He examines two 1952 films that resulted from the ...
Vittorio De Sica may be known to more Americans as an actor than as a director, but from 1947 through 1972 his directing efforts received more acclaim in the U.S. than any other Italian filmmaker save ...